本シリーズでは、複素環式化合物に関するレビューを紹介する.各巻は、合成、反応機構、構造の複雑さ、特性、反応性、安定性、基礎的で理論的な研究、生物学、バイオ医学的な研究、薬学的な側面、材料科学における応用といったあらゆる面に関連したトピックスからなる.特定機能を有する非複素環状分子の合成が設計できるように、複素環の破壊を含む経路も扱う.全体としての目的は、もっと大きな複素環群にも適用されるような、複素環化学における現在のトレンドとなっている領域のほとんどに関連したトピックスをカバーすることである. ・複素環化学は、化学の文献の3分の2をカバーする化学における最大の分野である. ・本シリーズは、この分野の研究の最前線における最新のトピックスをカバーする. ・オンライン版は、SpringerLink:www.springerlink.comから入手可能である. Copyright© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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edition. From the reviews: "The search for marine natural products is well-known for colorful pictures of exotic creatures which, after having been found to contain the cure for cancer, disappear into the depths, never to be seen again, or for accounts of scuba-diving chemists in waters alive with poisonous sea snakes - in short, the sort of sensational stuff that even nonchemists find interesting. That sort of thing will not be found in this book. This is not to say it will be uninteresting to organic chemists since it deals with some exciting current topics in natural products and synthetic organic chemistry.This slim, nicely bound volume consists of a series of well-organized and up-to-date chapters by several young Japanese chemists, many of them at Tohoku University in Sendai, who specialize in marine natural products. The overall theme of this volume can be stated to be total synthesis, as five of the eight chapters deal with this topic... As is pointed out in the Preface to the series, 50% of all molecules listed in Chemical Abstracts can be considered heterocyclic, and since heterocycles are, if anything, even more common among marine natural products, one has to set limits. Because of this, some of the more important heterocyclic marine natural products such as diazonamide A, the cephalostatins, spongistatin 1, or salinosporamide A are not even mentioned in this book. Nevertheless, this book represents a valuable and timely resource, which is expected to be especially useful to graduate students, and should be included in all scientific libraries." (José-Luis Giner, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 129 (15), 2007)